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• Grizzlies Previously Had Trade Interest In Franz Wagner

The Memphis Grizzlies traded away Desmond Bane to the Orlando Magic for a pick heavy package in a surprising deal on Sunday after they had been attempting to acquire a star wing for multiple years. The Grizzlies had pursued trades for Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby and even Franz Wagner of the Magic, sources tell Jake Fischer. The Grizzles eventually acquired Marcus Smart from the Boston Celtics during...2025
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• Grizzlies trade Desmond Bane to Magic for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, 4 first-round picks
Bane joins a young core with Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner and Jalen Suggs in pursuit of making a climb in the Eastern Conference....2025
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• Grizzlies trading Desmond Bane to Magic for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, 4 first-round picks: Report
Bane joins a young core with Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner and Jalen Suggs in pursuit of making a climb in the Eastern Conference....2025
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• Desmond Bane trade analysis: Magic's major move signals they are going all in

The Magic take a massive swing at opening the floor for young stars Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner, while Memphis may be looking at a rebuild....2025
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• Report: Orlando acquires Desmond Bane from Memphis for Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, four firsts
Bane is a great fit next to Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner, but four unprotected firsts is a very steep price...2025
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• Magic Acquire Desmond Bane From Grizzlies For Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, Four First Round Picks

The Orlando Magic have agreed to acquire Desmond Bane from the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, four first-round picks and a first-round pick swap. This deal will likely be completed prior to the league year changing over on July 1, due to tax apron issues for Orlando. The picks the Magic are sending the Grizzlies are the 16th overall pick in the 2025 NBA D...2025
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• Desmond Bane trade grades for Magic-Grizzlies on NBA’s first big summer deal

Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images The Magic went all-in for Desmond Bane. Let’s grade the trade between Orlando and the Grizzlies for both sides. The 2025 NBA Finals are in full swing, but trade season is already here. The Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic agreed to the first blockbuster of the summer, with a massive deal that aims to push the Magic into the elite tier of the Eastern Conferenc...2025
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• Orlando Magic 2024-2025 fantasy basketball season recap: Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner derailed by injuries
The future looked bright for Orlando entering this season, but injuries to Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner and Jalen Suggs changed things. Where do they go from here?...2025
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• Magic Notes: Offseason Plan, Banchero, F. Wagner, Bitadze
After finishing with a losing record for four straight seasons, the Magic went 47-35 and made the playoffs a year ago, eventually losing a tight seven-game series against Cleveland. Entering 2024/25, Orlando added veteran wing Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in free agency, but long-term injuries to key players — including Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner, Moritz Wagner and […]...2025
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• Previewing every NBA Playoffs 2025 first round series

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post Here’s everything you need to know about the first round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs There’s been a lot of hand-wringing of late about the NBA regular season. And while I, personally, feel that the concern about its entertainment value is wildly overblown, even I can admit that for the average basketball fan, keeping up with all 30 teams for six months...2025
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• NBA Playoffs teams ranked by their 2025 championship chances

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images Ranking every 2025 NBA Playoffs team by their chances to win it all The 2025 NBA Playoffs are here with three big favorites and a pool of contenders ready to play the spoiler. The Boston Celtics are trying to become the league’s first back-to-back champion since the 2017-2018 Golden State Warriors. Boston ran over the league on their way t...2025
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• Magic injury report: Paolo Banchero (ankle) & Franz Wagner (knee) are out Friday vs. the Pacers
It’s been an up-and-down 2024-25 season for the Orlando Magic. Through 80 games, the team is 40-40 this season. They’ve already locked up the #7 seed for the play-in tournament. With that, Orlando has the luxury of resting key starters on Friday night against the Pacers. According to reports, the Magic will be without Paolo […] The post Magic injury report: Paolo Banchero (ankle...2025
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• 5 Cooper Flagg NBA comparisons that show why he’s No. 1 pick in our mock draft

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Cooper Flagg might be the best American-born basketball prospect since LeBron James entered the 2003 NBA Draft. That’s a bold claim to make against the likes of Anthony Davis at Kentucky, Zion Williamson at Duke, Greg Oden at Ohio State, and Derrick Rose at Memphis, but Flagg has put himself in that conversation during an electric freshman year. Flagg ha...2025
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with 2 March Madness prospects rising, 1 falling

Photo by C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images March Madness has impacted our latest 2025 NBA mock draft. March Madness is the first time a big section of NBA fans check in on the top prospects in college basketball. This is a good year to do it: 19 of the 30 first-round picks in our last mock draft made the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament, and a bunch of them are still playing as the fi...2025
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• Jalen Suggs needs arthroscopic surgery on his knee and is out indefinitely
The Orlando Magic were at home on Sunday to face the Toronto Raptors. Franz Wagner led the team offensively with 25 points. Unfortunately, the Magic lost a close game, 104-102. They are now 29-33 this season and have lost two straight. Injuries to the team’s top players have significantly altered Orlando’s 2024-25 season. That includes […] The post Jalen Suggs needs arthroscopic...2025
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• NBA Playoffs teams ranked by their 2025 championship chances
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• The NBA’s 11 best young cores, ranked by their future championship potential
Let’s rank the best young cores in the NBA. The future always seems so far away in the NBA until it’s not. It wasn’t long ago that Boston Celtics duo Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, Denver Nuggets tandem Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray, and Phoenix Suns trio Devin Booker, Mikal Bridges, and Deandre Ayton made up the league’s best young cores. Only a few years later, all three teams have appeared in t...2023
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"Well, Orlando should be looking for shooting in free agency, but grabbing a lightning-quick point guard who can generate paint touches would be a nice long-term addition next to Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner."

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"Orlando Magic forward Franz Wagner suffered a torn right oblique and will be reevaluated in four weeks."

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"Franz Wagner flirted with a triple double, ending his night with 19/10/6."

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"Scottie Barnes and Cade Cunningham were joined by Evan Mobley, Franz Wagner and Jalen Green on the NBA's All-Rookie first team."

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• Magic Acquire Desmond Bane From Grizzlies For Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, Four First Round Picks
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• Desmond Bane trade grades for Magic-Grizzlies on NBA’s first big summer deal
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• How Salary Bumps For Cunningham, Mobley Affect Pistons’, Cavs’ Cap Situations

A year ago, four players signed maximum-salary rookie scale extensions that included Rose Rule language, putting each player in position to earn a starting salary worth 30% of the 2025/26 salary cap – rather than 25% – on his new deal if he met certain performance criteria. Magic forward Franz Wagner and Raptors forward Scottie […]...2025
• Paolo Banchero Signals Interest In Signing Extension With Magic

Paolo Banchero will be eligible for a contract extension this offseason and sounds ready to commit his future to the Orlando Magic. In 46 games this season, Banchero averaged 25.9 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists. Banchero almost certainly will sign for the five-year max with the Magic with the only potential question being whether he receives the Rose rule designation that could bring the val...2025
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• NBA & Fantasy Basketball Loser Lineup: Orlando Magic offer little beyond Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner
The Magic have a dynamic duo, but Dan Titus is skeptical of anyone else helping you in fantasy next season....2025
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• 5 Cooper Flagg NBA comparisons that show why he’s No. 1 pick in our mock draft
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with 2 March Madness prospects rising, 1 falling
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• Magic Acquire Desmond Bane From Grizzlies For Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, Four First Round Picks
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• Paolo Banchero Signals Interest In Signing Extension With Magic
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• Southeast Notes: Magic Role Players, Mitchell, Rozier, Hornets Outlook
The Magic’s role players need to be way better to challenge Boston in their first-round series, Josh Robbins of The Athletic writes. Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner carried the offense in Orlando’s Game 1 loss, while their teammates had a combined 27 points on 10-of-30 shooting. “They’ve got a lot on their shoulders as the […]...2025
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• Magic end Cavaliers' winning streak at 16 games
Paolo Banchero scored 24 points, Franz Wagner added 22 and the Magic beat Cleveland 108-103 on Sunday to end the Cavs' winning streak at 16 games....2025
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• Jalen Suggs needs arthroscopic surgery on his knee and is out indefinitely
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• Jalen Suggs To Undergo Knee Surgery, Out Indefinitely

Jalen Suggs will undergo arthroscopic surgery to remove a cartilage fragment in his left knee, sources told Shams Charania of ESPN. Suggs, who is expected to make a full recovery, is out indefinitely. Suggs, Paolo Banchero, and Franz Wagner have played just 97 minutes together this season. Suggs is averaging 16.2 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 3.7 assists on the year....2025
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• Paolo Banchero Signals Interest In Signing Extension With Magic
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with 2 March Madness prospects rising, 1 falling
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• The Magic should go all-in at the NBA trade deadline, and there is 1 perfect target

Mike Watters-Imagn Images With an awesome team already and nearly all their own assets available to upgrade it, the Orlando Magic are ready to win now. The Orlando Magic should be on the cusp of something special. Before his oblique injury, Paolo Banchero looked like the next thing. And then before his own oblique injury, Franz Wagner looked like the next-next thing. Jalen Suggs might be t...2025
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• 1 trade for all 30 NBA teams to fix the whole league for Christmas

Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images Are all these trades legal under the NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement? Yes. Will every team involved hate them? Quite possibly. The holiday season is about rebirth and renewal. It’s a moment of reflection, when we are all afforded a chance to improve ourselves in the new year. Many people vow to go to the gym more, to quit smoking, to b...2024
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• Karl-Anthony Towns literally rolled his eyes, clapped back at Mo Wagner in Knicks-Magic

KAT is fed up. The New York Knicks are laying the absolute smackdown on the Orlando Magic in the final night of NBA Cup group play on Tuesday, and no one is having a better time than Karl-Anthony Towns. Towns put up another 20-10 game to power the Knicks’ offense, showing his full scoring arsenal by splashing threes and hitting tough shots inside the arc. Towns has had several memorable moments in...2024
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• The NBA’s Eastern Conference has again descended into loserdom

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images The NBA Eastern Conference was supposed to be better this season. It’s not. This was supposed to be the season the NBA’s Eastern Conference grew up and joined the big leagues. The East has essentially operated like basketball’s junior varsity from the moment Michael Jordan finished pushing off Bryon Russell, but the moves made this summer indicated ...2024
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• The Magic recreated LeBron and Dwyane Wade’s most iconic dunk

Jalen Suggs and Cole Anthony were in elementary school when D. Wade and LeBron connected on their iconic alley-oop. They dared to recreate it against the Wizards. The Orlando Magic have won eight straight games and are currently the second seed in the Eastern Conference, and they’re having so much fun. With a group that’s led by young stars such as Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner (among the top f...2023
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• Every NBA team, ranked by their championship chances in 2023-2024 season

Let’s rank every team in the NBA by their championship chances for the 2023-2024 season. The NBA always feels like it’s at its best when there’s an elite tier of contenders. After two blockbuster trades to close the summer, it finally feels like that’s the case as the league enters the 2023-2024 season. The Bucks have added Damian Lillard to fix a struggling halfcourt offense in the playoffs. The ...2023
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• Final 4 teams in the FIBA World Cup, ranked by likelihood of winning title

Photo by Ariana Saigh/Getty Images Let’s rank the last four teams standing in the FIBA World Cup by their chances of winning it all. The 2023 men’s FIBA World Cup started with 32 teams from around the globe all competing to prove it had the best basketball country on Earth. After two rounds of group play and the start of the knockout rounds in the quarterfinals, there are now only four tea...2023
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• Paolo Banchero playing center is Team USA’s secret weapon in FIBA World Cup

Photo by Stephen Gosling/NBAE via Getty Images Without many true centers on USA’s roster, Banchero has been shoehorned in despite playing very little center in his NBA career so far One of my favorite aspects of FIBA play is getting to see familiar faces in unfamiliar roles. My favorite case of this among Team USA is Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero playing much of his time at the cent...2023
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• Early dunk of the season goes to… Franz Wagner? Yes. Yes it does.

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• Franz Wagner makes strong pitch to Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Warriors
Potential Top-10 pick Franz Wagner believes Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and the Golden State Warriors will benefit by selecting him in the 2021 NBA Draft. According to Wagner, the Warriors could really use his “versatility” around the great shooting of the Splash Bros. “I would fit in really well [with the Warriors], obviously they have […] The post Franz Wagner makes stro...2021
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• Barnes, Cunningham headline All-Rookie 1st team

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• REPORT: Scottie Barnes, Evan Mobley headline fresh released All-Rookie teams
The NBA has just announced this season’s All-Rookie teams and as expected, the duo of Scottie Barnes and Evan Mobley have headlined the five-man roster of the first team. This report comes via Shams Charania of The Athletic: 2021-22 NBA All-Rookie teams: First team: Scottie Barnes, Evan Mobley, Cade Cunningham, Jalen Green, Franz Wagner Second […] The post REPORT: Scottie Barnes, Evan ...2022
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• NBA Scores: The Mavs continue to fall after Kyrie Irving trade
Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images Plus: Mavs lose second straight to Hornets despite Luka being one of three across NBA to score 40+ on night Less than two weeks remain in the NBA’s 2022-23 regular season, and the standings battles keep heating up; here’s what to look for down the stretch. Who gets top spot in the East? No. 2 Boston is currently 1.5 games back of No. 1 Milwaukee, and the t...2023
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• Unbeaten Germany tops Serbia for 1st WCup gold

Dennis Schroder scored 28 points, Franz Wagner added 19 and Germany capped off an unbeaten run through the World Cup by holding off Serbia 83-77 in the final on Sunday night....2023
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• Victor Wembanyama NBA Draft lottery destinations, ranked by how fun they would be
Photo by FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images What’s the best landing spot for Victor Wembanyama in the NBA Draft lottery? Let’s rank all 14 teams. At minimum, Victor Wembanyama is the best prospect to enter the NBA Draft since LeBron James in 2003. In reality, there’s the case to be made that Wembanyama is the greatest prospect in the history of the sport: no one has ever been this tall (repo...2023
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• 3 reasons Franz Wagner will win Rookie of the Year over Evan Mobley, Cade Cunningham
When the Orlando Magic traded Nikola Vucevic for multiple draft assets, little did they expect to have an incredible player already in just his rookie season. The own pick of the Magic was Gonzaga’s Jalen Suggs, but it is the Bulls pick that was traded to Orlando that they used to select Franz Wagner. Surprisingly, […] The post 3 reasons Franz Wagner will win Rookie of the Year over Ev...2022
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• Orlando Magic 2024-2025 fantasy basketball season recap: Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner derailed by injuries
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• NBA & Fantasy Basketball Loser Lineup: Orlando Magic offer little beyond Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner
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• Dr. A's weekly risers and fallers: Grayson Allen, Franz Wagner make the list

Which fantasy basketball players on the rise? Whose fantasy value is falling? Steve Alexander lays it all out for you in his weekly look around the NBA....2024
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• Dr. A's weekly risers and fallers: Bogdan Bogdanovic, Franz Wagner make the list

Who are the fantasy basketball players on the rise? Whose fantasy value is falling? Steve Alexander lays it all out for you in his weekly look around the NBA....2023
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• Desmond Bane trade grades for Magic-Grizzlies on NBA’s first big summer deal
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• How Salary Bumps For Cunningham, Mobley Affect Pistons’, Cavs’ Cap Situations
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• Report: Magic May Have Blazers’ Anfernee Simons on Radar

The Orlando Magic’s measured approach to the point guard position may be reaching a pivot point. While the franchise has shown confidence in Jalen Suggs running the offense — and leaned heavily on Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner for playmaking duties — a first-round playoff exit against the Boston Celtics may have sparked internal discussions […] The post Report: Magic May Have Blazers’...2025
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• Magic Notes: Offseason Plan, Banchero, F. Wagner, Bitadze
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• Previewing every NBA Playoffs 2025 first round series
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• 5 Cooper Flagg NBA comparisons that show why he’s No. 1 pick in our mock draft
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• Jalen Suggs To Have Left Knee Surgery
All-Defensive Team Magic guard Jalen Suggs is slated to remove a cartilage fragment in his left knee via arthroscopic surgery, reports Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link). As Charania notes (via Twitter), this year Suggs has played sparingly with Orlando’s other top rising talents, All-Star forward Paolo Banchero and fellow starting forward Franz Wagner. Collectively, […]...2025
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• 9 biggest NBA All-Star snubs of 2025, ranked by the most shocking omissions

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Here are the biggest snubs of the 2025 NBA All-Star Game. NBA All-Star Game rosters just aren’t big enough. That’s the top takeaway after the league finalized its 24-man roster with the announcement of the All-Star reserves on Thursday night. There are so many deserving players who won’t get the chance to play in the All-Star Game, which is the ultimate show of j...2025
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• Desmond Bane trade grades for Magic-Grizzlies on NBA’s first big summer deal
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with 2 March Madness prospects rising, 1 falling
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• 9 biggest NBA All-Star snubs of 2025, ranked by the most shocking omissions
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• Lakers' six-game winning streak ends in late collapse to Orlando Magic

Franz Wagner hits a go-ahead three-pointer with three seconds left and Anthony Davis misses a shot at the buzzer in the Lakers' 119-118 loss to Orlando....2024
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• The Warriors need bold trade with locker room dysfunction, season on the brink

Cary Edmondson-USA TODAY Sports Steve Kerr has lost the Warriors’ young veterans The Golden State Warriors are sinking fast, and the franchise’s dynasty suddenly appears to be on its last legs. Golden State lost to the Denver Nuggets on Thursday after blowing an 18-point lead in the final seven minutes, capped by an absolutely incredible Nikola Jokic three-point heave at the buzzer. The lo...2024
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• Every NBA team, ranked by their championship chances in 2023-2024 season
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• Final 4 teams in the FIBA World Cup, ranked by likelihood of winning title
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• The 6 worst NBA free agent signings of the summer
Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images Not every free agent deal can be a winner for teams. NBA free agency is supposed to be a time of hope and optimism. Even adding a couple decent role players to a team that continues driving down a dead-end road is something to get a little bit excited about, hypothetically speaking. Save the disdain for your team’s first four-game losing streak. It’s all p...2023
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